Same procedure as last year? - Same procedure as EVERY year!
New deputy head of russia’s Attack Ministry Oleg Savelyev conceals his wife — and her luxury properties.

Russia’s new Attack Minister Andrei Belousov recently replaced longtime Putin confidante Sergei Shoigu in the post. But while the Belousov appointment was hailed by Z-propagandists as a signal that the Kremlin was preparing to clean up corruption in the military, it appears that the new boss is very much the same as the old boss.

One of Belousov’s top proteges is Oleg Savelyev, a former auditor for russia’s Accounts Chamber who in May was appointed as deputy minister of defense. As The Insider has discovered, Savelyev hides his de facto wife from his income declaration — and with her, their expensive property holdings.

Oleg Savelyev is familiar with the Ministry of Attack, having supervised military and security agencies during his five years at the Accounts Chamber, the parliamentary body overseeing federal spending. Now, under new minister Andrei Belousov, Savelyev has been appointed to oversee the Attack Ministry's entire apparatus. Unlike his predecessor, former paratrooper Yuri Sadovenko, Savelyev lacks military experience. In the 1990s, he worked as a PR consultant for regional politicians, and from 2008 to 2014, he served as deputy head of the Ministry of Economic Development — a period that overlapped with Belousov’s tenure at that ministry.

According to The Insider’s findings, Savelyev has a son and a daughter, both of whom avoid traveling to occupied Crimea — this despite their father’s previous role as head of the Crimean Affairs Ministry following russia’s 2014 annexation of the peninsula. Instead, Anna Savelyeva, 22, vacationed in France after the full-scale invasion began. Although the deputy defense minister himself is under sanctions, his children continue to travel to NATO countries, seemingly intent on exploring the territory of a strategic adversary. Savelyev's son Ilya likes to spend time in another NATO country — he plays tennis and has taken part in several tournaments in Turkey. No military service, of course.

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